"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Backwards leaving
Tightly beating
Stupid reasons
Useless feelings
I wasn't that surprised
It's always part of my
Awkward attempts to speak up
I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
Feel castrated
Complicated
Feelings leading
Am I mistreated
I wasn't that prepared
I wasn't that aware
Just wanted to disappear
I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
Come around
Coming down give it a frown
To the sound when I hit ground
I can't believe that I see that you see when I know that I don't give a fuck about it anyway
Stay awake
Feeling cold and tired
Resignation
Last conversation
I should have thought ahead
And I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
I'm sicker than I thought
I'm fighting what I fought
I'm right back where I started from
Backwards leaving
Gamely beating
Tightly beating
Stupid reasons
Useless feelings
I wasn't that surprised
It's always part of my
Awkward attempts to speak up
I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
Feel castrated
Complicated
Feelings leading
Am I mistreated
I wasn't that prepared
I wasn't that aware
Just wanted to disappear
I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
Come around
Coming down give it a frown
To the sound when I hit ground
I can't believe that I see that you see when I know that I don't give a fuck about it anyway
Stay awake
Feeling cold and tired
Resignation
Last conversation
I should have thought ahead
And I remain unknown
I'm bleeding where I bled
I'm hiding where I hid
I'm entertaining sicker things
And everybody said
I'm burning out instead
The softer side of a better boy
I'm sicker than I thought
I'm fighting what I fought
I'm right back where I started from
Backwards leaving
Gamely beating
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haha.... it's sad that my idle used to be bulimic and do heroin.. but i kind of get what he means in this song. I have isomnia too.
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Everyone above me has got it, I think. It's about Josh's drug addiction and/or eating disorder.
I'm pretty sure this song is about him getting into drugs, having an addiction. some of it is self explanitory
it also could partly be about his insomnia.. "Stay awake, Feeling cold and tired" About his drug addiction, his insomnia, and his bulimia. Thats my guess
I'm pretty sure the correct lyrics are:
"Feel misleaded, mind mistreated"
"I hate the way that I say that you'll stay When I know that I don't give a fuck about it anyway"
Definately about an addiction but I think it's emphasizing that it's something that he thought he was over and now it's coming back.
"I'm sicker than I thought I'm fighting what I fought I'm right back where I started from"
The thought he was almost better but it ended up he was still addicted. Now he has to start the treatment all over again.
"Stay awake, Feeling cold and tired"
Drug withdrawl symptoms, insomnia.
whats insomnia?? and i think i been told before but castrated??
I love Perfect :) And this is the first time I've listened to the EP, on a crazy MT rampage.. I'm sort of dying at how this is part of Perfect :P
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